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Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth invites advanced and professional dancers from throughout the North Texas area to participate in a special presentation of Twyla Tharp's "The One Hundreds" during the organization's 5th annual Modern Dance Festival at The Modern. On Saturday July 26, during a special "Tribute To Twyla" day, 100 dancers will perform "The One Hundreds" at 12 pm, 2 pm, and 4 pm. Members of the CD/FW company will perform along with colleagues from other area dance companies, in addition to dancers selected through an audition process.

Two separate auditions will take place on the TCU campus in Studio B of The School for Classical and Contemporary Dance --- on Sunday June 22 at 1 pm and Tuesday June 24 at 6 pm.

The audition will include learning and executing the first 20 phrases of the dance. Dancers should bring a short resume/summary of training and performing experience. Advanced dancers in modern dance, ballet, and/or jazz dance, with significant performing experience and training are welcome to audition, whether or not they have previous professional performing experience. Dancers must be willing to commit to rehearsals through the performances on July 26.

"This is the first time that Tharp's 'The One Hundreds' has been performed like this. It is a uniquely 'Texas-sized' event, expanding on her original concept," noted Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth artistic director Kerry Kreiman. "When I found out that Twyla Tharp was offering a special licensing agreement for this work at a rate we could afford, I could instantly envision dancers scattered everywhere throughout the museum and grounds and around the reflecting pond, all doing The One Hundreds at the same time, so I asked if we could have permission to do so. Twyla loved the idea and gave us the go ahead, and we were thrilled. Basically, it's going to be a great big dance party for the dancers, and a whole lot of fun for the viewers, too. It's also a wonderful excuse to get a whole lot of dancers together to dance as a group. The dancers in this area are so scattered about and busy just trying to make ends meet, that we rarely seem to have time to get together as colleagues. It will be unlike anything we have ever done before, and I can't wait to see it all in action!"

The performances on July 26 are part of the culminating event for the 2008 festival:

Tribute To Twyla
Saturday July 26
An innovator and visionary for modern and post-modern dance, Twyla Tharp has truly changed the shape of American modern dance and ballet for generations to come. Her early choreography explored many of the same issues as the Judson Church choreographers of the 1960's. Over time, her vision expanded to include "big ballet" and Broadway. Her musical "Movin Out" with music by Billy Joel is still touring the U.S. to popular acclaim. The Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth company is inviting area dancers to celebrate her work with them, as they perform her 1970 work "The One Hundreds" in a special staging incorporating the museum grounds and building with 100 dancers scattered throughout. Tharp is renowned for creating works for alternative spaces -- gymnasiums, streets, parks, libraries, and museums. This unique presentation of her seminal work "The One Hundreds" at The Modern is presented with her blessings and great enthusiasm.

100 Dancers Perform "The One Hundreds"
12 noon, 2 pm, 4 pm
Various locations around museum
(Admission free for majority of viewing locations, but required to see dancers in the galleries)
A unique special edition of Twyla Tharp's "The One Hundreds" featuring 100 dancers scattered throughout the museum and grounds. When Tharp originally developed this dance in 1970, she wanted to address three questions she faced as a performing dancer: 1) how accurate is my memory? 2) how good is my coordination? 3) how strong is my sense of beginnings, middles and endings? Tharp created 100 eleven-second phrases in answer to these questions.

Twyla On Twyla
1pm, 3pm
Screening
Museum Auditorium
Admission free
This look at Twyla's career and philosophies gives a wonderful overview of her contributions to American dance. "Tharp is devoted to the possibilities and properties of physical movement. Simultaneously, she is less and less interested in the formal separation of audience and performer and has begun to create her works more and more in such a manner that an audience, which may not see all of a work, will pay more attention to what it can see." Don McDonagh, The Rise and Fall and Rise of Modern Dance, 1970.